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A typical career for a rock band – formation, peak years, inevitable decline and ugly break-up – lasts at least a few years. On Monday, the process was accelerated in the course of a hilarious, briskly paced 90-minute show by actor Jack Black and comedian Kyle Gass, whose parody partnership as Tenacious D drew a sell-out crowd at Hard Rock Live. It took exactly two songs for Tenacious D to, well, break up. “Usually, at this point in the show, the show is way better than this,” Black explained, adding that his partner wasn’t carrying his weight. A mini-drama unfolded in which Gass quit and returned in the course of two songs: “Dude (I Totally Miss...

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A typical career for a rock band – formation, peak years, inevitable decline and ugly break-up – lasts at least a few years.
On Monday, the process was accelerated in the course of a hilarious, briskly paced 90-minute show by actor Jack Black and...

Steve Martin, Owen Wilson and Jack Black signed on to make this comedy about competitive bird-watching.And they were amazed at what they discovered while making "The Big Year": Bird-watchers, or "birders," hopping on planes, flitting...

Jack Black has hosted Nickelodeon’s Kids Choice Awards three times. He’s popped up on “Sesame Street,” “Phineas and Ferb” and “iCarly.” He’s in the new Muppets movie, and his last film was the kid-friendly “Gulliver’s Travels.” This weekend, he’s skazoosh behi

Jack Black and Richard Linklater struck comic gold the last time they teamed up, for “School of Rock.” So when Linklater (“Me & Orson Welles,” “Dazed and Confused”) hit up his star again, Black was listening. “Bern

Regular readers of this blog might remember the epic haul of Chinese New Year “Kung Fu Panda 2″ swag that came in last winter, to help critics prep their own Chinese meals and think about the Panda picture as they do. A bamboo steamer, bamboo place

The “Being John Malkovich/Adaptation/Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” screenwriter turned writer-director Charlie Kaufman always goes his own way, always finds an interesting way to approach a story and always finds interesting actors to peop

"Big Brother" took a huge turn Thursday night when Daniele and Jeff, two of the strongest players, were ejected. Jeff turned the tables on Daniele, and her friends got back at him in the season's biggest surprise. As the show ended, Jordan and Rachel were in t

“A Good Old Fashioned Orgy” is a sex romp that flops around more than it romps. But at least there's plenty of sex, right? Well, yeah — a bit of full frontal nudity and a heaping helping of copulation, but there aren't a lot of laughs from so

Jack Black, Steve Martin, and Owen Wilson, with Brian Dennehy, Kevin Pollack, many others. A trailer that tries to hide the fact that these guys are out there bird watching through their birder's “Bucket List.” If I've been reading the promotional

The bird watching comedy “The Big Year” opens in a few weeks. And if you were just going by this cast and their reps, you'd think “Wacky.” But the movie fits right in with Owen Wilson's “big year,” and can comfortably be men

It's a remake, as I said in my story on it, of a “beloved” but “bad” movie. Maybe that's why reviews have turned surprisingly positive for this picture, subbing the South for the Midwest, Dennis Quaid for John Lithgow and Kenny Wormald

“The Big Year” is a comedy about competitive bird-watching. It stars three of the biggest stars from two generations of screen comedy — Steve Martin, Owen Wilson and Jack Black. So there's little time for waxing poetic about our feathered fri

Our friends at Fandango tell me that “Footloose” is leading the ticket pre-sales for the weekend. But it's a weak “must go,” amongst users of that service. The box office guru generously pitches it as a $20 million opening weekend hit.

UPDATED:”Real Steel” wins another weekend as “Footloose” stumbles to $15.5 million or so. “Steel” did $16 million plus. There's at least one epic fail this weekend at the box office. “The Big Year” did so little

With the World Series concluded, the Fox schedule returns to normal. The Tuesday lineup will be back after a break: "Glee" at 8 p.m.; new hit "New Girl" at 9; and "Raising Hope" at 9:30. "The X Factor" offers a two-hour performance show at 8 p.m. Wednesday. Th

Smith said in a statement: "The Kids' Choice Awards are always the year's liveliest, slimiest and most outrageous party for kids and teens. I'm honored they wanted me to host this year so I can have a front row seat to take part in the fun."

"As soon as Shirley MacLaine made her entrance in the show as my mom, everything became clear to me," McGovern told the audience. "Come back to 'Downton Abbey,' Shirley! I miss my mom." The third season will premiere in January on PBS.

The Kennedy Center Honors remain durable, involving and thoughtful. Can the Oscars or the Emmys make such a claim? You might not even know the honorees, but the 35th annual telecast makes a persuasive case for them in word, song and filmed profiles. How often